child's face; childlike face; boyish face; baby face
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
checkers (board game); draughts; checker
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
fan-tan (card game); sevens; parliament
it doesn't matter what; anything is fine
that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)
coward; weakling; scaredy cat; wimp; sissy
to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
preface; introduction; lead in (to a joke, question, etc.); lead up; payment in advance (by bank transfer); swinging (one's body) forward
heredity; (genetic) inheritance
to sell off; to sell completely
how many people; a number of people
one's possessions; ownership
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)
to have a talk; to tell a story
skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery
besides; in addition; also; moreover
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
to employ; to hire; to charter
carrying (on one's person or in the hand); mobile phone; cell phone
to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to input (data)
to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now
limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...
to condemn; to blame; to urge; to press; to torture; to torment
bad influence; negative influence
honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly
textbook; coursebook; schoolbook
unattractive; ugly; unstylish; uncool
impossible to understand; impossible to decipher
vacantly; blankly; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; with a whack; with a thump
to stare back at; to look back at